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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.

Krishna Das

Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
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Cleaning Grace Himself Surrender Walk
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
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Believe Exploration Instant Mindset Ourselves Thinking
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Color Imagination See
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that’s why I sing. Whether it’s at the Grammys, whether it’s in the bathroom, whether it’s in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru’s grace, my head stays in that place.
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Head Heart Open People Place Sing
Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.
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Force Grace Live Obstacle Ourselves Remove
The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we are able to see ourselves. The dust is all our stuff – guilt, anger – this stuff is reflected back to us. Practice removes the dust from the mirror of our hearts.
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Angry Guilty Heart Mirror Ourselves
The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.
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Different Practice Protection Reality Way
When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
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Desire Fulfill Happiness Let Go
Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
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Dedication Devotion Finding Heart Mindset Way
There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
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Love Thinking World
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Dissappear Impossible Judgement Path
Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Desire Liberty Material
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.
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Aspect Important Motivational People
Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.
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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That’s the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
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Live Ourselves Subject Way
Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff’. You get lit up. You don’t have to know what it means.
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Chant Known Point Yourself
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Known Light Reality Yourself

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